Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Bike Socials!

Not one, but TWO bike socials coming up! As I mentioned last week Bikeyface and Megan, (who you may know from Boston Three Speed Club) and I met up after the Boston Bike meeting last week, and we really wanted to start some social events for women who bike for transportation in the Boston area. No particular agenda, just a chance to meet like-minded ladies and hang out. Or as Dottie put it, "women who bike are pretty much without fail smart, fun and cool"

Ladies of the Night Cocktail Hour at Green Street Grill 280 Green Street, Cambridge, conveniently located on my route home. This Friday at 6pm (drinks) with dinner following at 7pm.
info on facebook page linked above

Boston Women Who Bike Brunch. We're stealing directly from LGRAB here, but we should have done it much sooner. There are so many women biking in Boston/Camberville, and we should get to know each other. We're thinking the 3rd Saturday of the month, which this month is the 17th (St Paddy's day).
First one at Area IV Cambridge at 11AM.

Sorry, guys, no boys allowed (at least to these). If these are a success, we'll try to plan more mixed gender events for the summer.

RSVP in the comments, or if you do "The Facebook" you can RSVP to this Friday's event there.
I'd like to let Area IV know we're coming so an approximate head count would be great.

13 comments:

Hi! I am also a female in the architecture industry looking to commute (maybe in heels?), and yours seem like the perfect person's brain to pick on something but I didn't see a contact for you. Is there a good way to do that?

Brick & Mortar, the bar at what used to be the Enormous Room, is indeed pretty great, though not quite as suitable for dinner as Green Street. The written cocktail menu usually isn't as extensive as the default menu at Green Street (and certainly not as long as the "regulars menu" that you have to request) but the fact that it's Misty (from Drink) and Evan (from Deep Ellum) should mean that you can ask for the nerdiest of nerdy nerd cocktails and they won't blink.

Also, for general socializing in a large group, I like the setup at Brick & Mortar a little more than Green Street oriented as it is around several communal tables.

Cris, maybe we could host an expanded scale pastry ride as a good social ride. A beer ride could be fun, going to beer-specific bars like Meadhall, as well as Redbones (wheel-o-beer). and I'm sure there are other possibilities.

A progressive dinner could be fun too-although a bit unwieldy as the group gets bigger. Maybe when the weather is truly good we could do a progressive picnic...

ooh ... maybe. I was thinking for the next edition of the Pastry Ride to cut the number of stops down by a lot and make it more about the riding than the pastry (like, just one stop in each of the designated towns of Somerville, Cambridge, Brookline, etc.) and if we wanted to expand the invite, finish it up somewhere large enough so that if people wanted to skip the ride and just socialize somewhere then that would be an option.

Or just get stuff to go at the last bakery and just have a big old picnic out in the Esplanade. That could work too (but that's also because it's 65 bloody degrees right now and I want to have lunch outdoors)